I always love this time of year!  As the year draws to a close, it is a time of reflection, a time to review accomp- lishments as well as that which was not accomplished.  It is a time to prepare for a new year and new beginnings and a time to dream.

What is your dream?  More importantly, what is your dream for 2012? Is it to lose weight? Yet again? If you are like 41% of those surveyed, your #1 New Year’s Resolution is to Lose Weight.

Did you know that, according to an article in Consumerism Commentary, only 8 – 15% of those who make resolutions keep them. One researcher even claims that only 3% of resolutions survive the first month of the year.  Dose this sound like someone you know – intimately?

Where will you be a month from now and, more importantly, a year from now?  Will you have lost the weight and kept it off or will you be setting the same goal again for 2013?

A few years ago I was where you may be now. My number one New Year’s Resolution for years running was to lose weight….and yes, I usually lost the weight only to gain it all back and then some.  Can you relate?

Then, one day, I realized that I was using food as a stress reliever and that my refrigerator was one of the “rooms” I visited the most in my home. Not good. That day I woke up disgusted with how I looked, and I also knew a ‘new resolution’ was not going to take care of this.  I was done with ‘dieting’.  And I was done with resolutions that I did not accomplish.

Finally, instead of making a new resolution, I DECIDED to change how I approached life and food. I lost 25 lbs the first year and an additional 20 lbs and 30 inches the next.  I now exercise regularly. I am happy. I feel beautiful and sexy.  I am in the best shape of my life and I enjoy and love life!    I eat the foods I love not out of ‘hunger’ but out of enjoyment when I am truly hungry.

I wish I had had a coach.  It took me a year and a half to get the weight off and change my habits.  For you, it does not need to take this long.

Are you ready to get the weight off for good this time?  Are you ready to DECIDE to finally accomplish that goal in 2012? Yes? Good.

So how do you set yourself up for success with your DECISION?  Instead of setting up goals that are idealistic and not obtainable, set up your DECISION to be realistic, with goals that you can measure and review.   Know that feeling beautiful and sexy is not about diets or losing weight as much as it is about how one feels inside and how one handles food and stress.

For each one of us, there is a desert to travel.  A star to discover.  And a being within ourselves to bring to life. 

–  Author Unknown    

Is this year the year you want to discover your star?  Is 2012 the year to bring to life the real you?

If you want help with your New Year’s Resolution and DECISION to lose weight and keep it off, please request a Complimentary Strategy Session to begin your journey.

Happy New Year!

I f, as Herod, we fill our lives with things, and again with things; if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must fill every moment of our lives with action, when will we have the time to make the long, slow journey across the desert as did the Magi?  Or sit and watch the stars as did the shepherds?  Or brood over the coming of the child as did Mary?  For each one of us, there is a desert to travel.  A star to discover.  And a being within ourselves to bring to life.  –  Author Unknown

Wishing you all the Magic of the Season!  

Joy, Happiness, Peace!

Enjoy!  

I Intend To Be The Mouse On The Right . . . How About You?

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An incredible article by my mentor and friend, Dorina Lanza. The power of having a big dream and the vision to accomplish it! What’s yours?

I have always dreamt. And I’ve always dreamt big. But until I developed vision – a real vision of what I wanted to create in conjunction with that dream – I made little progress.

Many people do not understand the difference between having just a dream and having a real vision of what you want to create but the difference is huge. When you are dreaming you are removed, you are wishing for something to be. It is not real. It is not part of you. Kind of like being at your job and wishing you were sitting on a nice warm beach with palm trees somewhere. This will not get the job done.

So, what are you to do? You must develop vision.

What is vision?

Vision is what allows you to fully experience where you want to be in your life before you get there. You can see it, smell it, taste it, feel it, hear it, touch it before it actually exists. In your day to day being, you don’t experience the rote that is in front of you – you experience your vision of where you intend to be even though it does not yet exist in our 3-dimensions – as though you are already there.

What you are doing is training your subconscious mind.

Did you know that your subconscious can’t tell the difference between a “real” event and a “visualized” event as we have described? This fact is used all the time in training for peak performance in sports – just ask the New England Patriots!

Take advantage of this fact. What your subconscious believes to be true it will create for you. It will make you recognize the things of which you should take advantage to reach your vision – your big dreams. Pay attention and take advantage of those hints your mind is giving you.

This is the major tool that I used to get where I am now. That and solid action. I kept that vision in front of me continuously – tasting, feeling, smelling, hearing, feeling, and seeing it continuously.

Do that and persist and you will be well on your way! And, if you found this post valuable make sure you share it with your friends and colleagues by clicking on the share buttons up above. And, of course, I would live to hear your feedback. Leave it in the comment area below!

Dream Big!

Luke must unlearn what he thinks he knows. How many things that you think you “know” do you need to unlearn?

Think about it!

There seems to always be a sports analogy to demonstrate a point and usually I roll my eyes.   Never again will I do that!

Dorina Lanza, my business coach and friend, has written an incredible article about creative visualization – the secret to accomplishing your goals and the life you want.  So….what is your goal?  Can you visualize it?

Creative visualization. What does that mean? It means behaving both inwardly and outwardly as though you have already achieved your coveted goal. This means you fully experience it with all your senses as though you have already accomplished it. You can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste it. You behave as though you already have it.

What does creative visualization have to do with the NFL?

As I’m sure you know, players of the winning team are awarded big, expensive Super Bowl rings which marks the wearer as a champion. And, the players that have won these rings often continue to wear them on a daily basis throughout their life. Having earned one of these rings is a very big deal.

Well, ESPN reported that on the night before Super Bowl XLV Mike McCarthy, the Green Bay Packers’ coach, made a very unusual move to motivate and inspire his team. What did he do? Well, contrary to the prevailing superstition, Coach McCarthy had the players fitted for their Super Bowl rings the night before the game.

What effect did this have on the Packers? Linebacker A.J. Hawk said the ring fitting “made things real for us.” Desmond Bishop, another linebacker, said, “We could see that it was right there. Everything we wanted was right there in our hands, literally and figuratively.”

McCarthy [who is from Pittsburgh, BTW] said after the Packers’ victory that “No disrespect to the [Pittsburgh] Steelers. We respect their football team. We respect the way they play. They’re a good tough physical football team. But we fully expected to win this game. This is our time.”

What were the Packers players and coaches doing? They were using creative visualization to achieve their goal. And what happened? They won the Super Bowl.

What can you learn from this?

You can learn that you can do the same thing, use that same creative visualization tool. You can behave as though you have already accomplished your goal – see it, smell it, touch it, hear it, taste it, immerse yourself in it. If you do that, [know that your subconscious can't differentiate between your creative visualization of something and the real thing] your subconscious will lead you in the direction of the thing which it thinks you already have. [Note that this approach works just as well for worst case thinking so watch out!]

Are you doing this? Have you experienced yourself being fitted for your “ring”? Beyond the ring, have you visualized your life after you have had your figurative victory parade and are living your goal? Do you fully expect to reach your goal? Do you see yourself at the top?

Whatever steps you need to take to make your success real for you, take them now. The sooner you begin, the better for you.

Live long and prosper!

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Live long and prosper!

Super entertaining and mind-expanding interview with the Dalai Lama. One of the best ones I have ever seen. Check it out if you want to become a smiling/laughing/care-free person. Highly recommended. Inhale the joy!

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself he always seems to be doing both. Enough for him that he does it well.”

- Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, 1932